Archive for November, 2012

It is Advent in Tahrir Square, where people are waiting. They’re not sure for what, but such is the nature of Advent, to wait for freedom and deliverance amid uncertainty. The people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square are both afraid and hopeful at the same time. That’s Advent in a land where Arab Spring has […]

One of the things I stress in my photography workshops is that the photographer is challenged to take pictures of things weve all seen before, but to do it in such a way that we see it freshly, anew. Take the unloading of boxes of relief goods at a church in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, following […]

I dont like taking pictures of meetings, which are almost always visually boring. One exception I make is the quadrennial gathering of United Methodists called General Conference. Its a chance to see a lot of friends and work with Mike DuBose, a photographer colleague who actually knows what hes doing, and so Im constantly pestering […]

Sometimes you just keep following a subject, in case something interesting happens. On this day, I flew on a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, on Haitis southern coast. It was a very ecumenical trip: the U.S. military transporting emergency assistance provided by German churches, which was offloaded by Canadian soldiers and turned […]

When I posted this image on Facebook a few weeks ago, some people wanted to know if Id gotten all wet taking it. Not really. It was late in the day and Id wandered off without a translator or vehicle in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudans Upper Nile State. (These are refugees from […]